🤷‍♂️ not anytime soon

Right between Half Life 3 and OJ finding the real killers

Offseason probably.

It doesn’t matter, Ballmer and the Clippers won. They were allowed to participate in the season like nothing happened, they were allowed to keep Kawhi and play him like nothing happened, they were allowed to make trades which helped them get younger with Garland and Mathurin and get picks back, they were allowed to continue playing like nothing happened after the trades, and now they’ll be allowed to participate in the playoffs as well.

Not only that, but Ballmer is allowed to continue in his role within the board of governors as the head of the league’s “Audit Committee” (lmao) and people like Lawrence Frank got extended despite being at the heart of this entire operation.

TLDR; Ballmer is too rich, so ain’t shit happening.

Hey! Hey!!! Tanking!!! UTAH is tanking!! Tanking!!!!

Expansion!!! Expansion!!! Seattle and LV are getting a team!!!!!

They need to set the precedence and not hand out a slap on the wrist. All the large market teams will be doing it if so..

It’s going to be bad for the league if this is not dealt with.

The teams are owned by billionaires. Billionaires will cheat if they can get away with it, period.

It’s going to be the fucking Wild West if basically anyone can circumvent the salary cap.

For example: the two new expansion teams are supposed to have a reduced salary cap for the first two years. If they can just go around that, they could have an ENORMOUS war chest (no money tied up in current contracts).

First of all, the league never said it would be right after the All-Star Game.

There was an article from The Athletic that said:

The results of Wachtell’s probe of Leonard’s contract with Aspiration are not expected until after the NBA All-Star Game

It was not a league statement. It was a reporter. And people interpreted this as “oh my god it’ll come out right after the All-Star Game!” Which is a silly reading.

Note the “Wachtell” in that quote. It refers to the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (WLRK). WLRK has conducted numerous investigations for the NBA. These investigations are independent of the NBA and that’s the whole point. The NBA hands it to them, an independent entity, tells them “investigate this for us,” WLRK’s people get on the case and eventually report their findings and the NBA acts on it.

This is what happened in the Sarver (former Sund owner) case. ESPN dropped article in November 2021 with allegations of racism and misogyny against Sarver. The NBA hired WLRK to investigate. 10 months later, they publicly released a 43 page report in which they found Sarver to be guilty of a great deal of misconduct and explicitly laid it all out. Sarver was later forced out.

So it took WLRK 10 months to do the Sarver case. It has been ~6.5 months since Torre’s initial reporting (and they pretty immediately hired Wachtell after that). It could take a fair bit longer, I imagine.

NBA hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to investigate the Clippers. These type of legal investigations take quite a bit of time in general and it’s more convenient for everyone to wait until the off-season at the soonest.

There is no tampering in Ba Sing Se

They did not say which year

Do the 13 yos take turns making this post every week?

Only Reddit cares about this

No one actually cares

points at forehead

There is an infinite amount of time after All Star break

Ballmer is one of the richest men in the world. People like him don’t get punished. They run the world. The entire system is built to ensure nothing bad ever happens to them. The NBA just tried to run the clock out so people stopped caring.

It’s like the Epstein files. Just distract the dumb fucks and talking heads and pretend it never happened.

Reddit is far more interested in this story than the regular NBA-viewing public is.

When Ballmer goes broke

Never.

They’re not fuckin with Ballmer, one of the wealthiest owners in the league who pretty much just funded the newest state of the art NBA arena.

I remember a comment on a similar reminder thread the past week 

Somebody said there is an Aspiration executive being sentenced by the government soon and they want to see that before any punishment here if at all 

Clippers getting a slap on the wrist. NBA doesn’t want to alienate Balmer

Silver is trying to handle every issue but the one that shows complete corruption of the rules by his very owner lol

They will dock the Timberwolves 4 first round draft picks.

It’s like when the astros got caught stealing the World Series … pun intended … then covid happened and nobody talked about it again … no players ever got punished … manager got fired wow … great job commissioner of mlb

The richest owner in all of sports will let us know if and when.

No one cares and Pablo Torres is the engine that wishes it mattered

12 years from now is still after the all-star game. xD

the league office quietly forced them to trade Harden for a very good younger guard

There are guys that beat women in the league. Silver only cares about one thing and it’s green

After Kawhi retires they’ll get a fine equivalent to 10 cents to the average person

This is why, leaving the penalty for tanking in the hands of Adam Silver is ridiculous. There’s no way he’ll be objective about it.

imagine caring, clearly the league doesn’t 

After this season. They’re gonna give him one last run and bring down the hammer. /s

After the draft lottery and before preseason

Not sure what year though

Most people have already moved on from the Epstein files since fuel prices shot up. You think they remember some basketball scandal from months ago?

Evidence is while damning, only circumstantial. Unless we find a email from Steve Ballmer stating that he like to funnel millions of salary through Aspiration to Kawhi, NBA will find them not guilty.

Steve Ballmer does not become the richest owner by leaving an audit trail.

It’s never coming 😂. Him and Ballmer should literally be banned from the league. It’s some of the most aggressive and blatant corruption in sports history

Same time Manchester City’s 155 charges drop.

Gotta wait to see if it would impact the playoffs… They’ll announce it when there’s no actual damage to the tv ratings

When the Winds of Winter comes out.

We’re going to win the championship then the punishment will take it away ao ultimate clipper ending

there is no war in ba sing se

Ballmer will be “forced” to sell as punishment. But he’ll use the proceeds for the Sonics franchise.

when the rest of the owners come to grips with what they wanna do about the fact that ballmer could buy any of them out tomorrow

They should make Ballmer pick up garbage

10 20 hours a week for 5 8 years

the pacers pick they got from the zubac trade is gonna fall out of the 1-4th protection, the league is then gonna step in and say we’re letting the pacers keep their pick as a punishment to the clippers, and thus concludes the saga.

The whole nba is guilty of corruption

Well, it’s still after the All Star Game isn’t it? /s

The NBA’s Manchester City “115 financial breaches” fiasco

Ballmer could nuke the state of Texas and the only people with power complaining about it would be the owners of Mavs, Spurs, and Rockets

I’ll ask Adam Silver on my direct line right now

NBA just wants it to go away.

He’s not getting punished

I think the longer the investigation takes the better. My guess is that Balmer won’t accept any penalties and thus all goes to court and becomes a protracted payday for the lawyers. Silver probably told the investigating law firm that the case needs to be airtight and that’s why it’s taking so long.

Or they’re hoping for everything to blow over.

playoffs, lol

It’s going to be dealt with since a lot of owners want the clippers to be punished but I honestly wouldn’t expect it until the off season or late into the playoffs

It’s either never going to happen, never be published if it happens or it will be announced during the offseason.

I think it’s more complicated than just xyz. It’s not just a league problem if it’s all true. Player contracts are legal documents, so someone has to prove to the tax man where those $ came from and where they went? If you get paid on the books, it’s on the books. I definitely want to know though. Clippers drama is like daytime TV, there could be a cheating husband or a body involved 🤷

Hopefully 2028 when the sixers own their pick lol

The punishment will be the Pacers pick falling to #5 in the lottery.

After the season is technically still after the All Star Game.

The year 2050 is also after 2026 all star game

Adam silver is the softest NBA commissioner, he will do nothing. David stern Was the best

I don’t know what’s more annoying, these posts or the tanking proposal posts.

Silver is going to start a war in the Middle East right when he releases the balmer files

Right after that pacers pick hits for them …

Legit if they get no punishment when the wolves had their franchise nuked I don’t know what we’re going here

Shh…, bad teams tanking is much more important. 

Shit is honestly embarrassing all around for the league and the Clippers. Those bums cheated just to choke, we got definitive proof, and Silver is looking soft as fuck. What if they somehow would’ve actually won it all?

April 1st

The NBA is corrupt. Adam Silver doesn’t give a fuck about cheating as long as money is being made, and even actively encourages cheating if it makes more money.

Neva

As soon as the current U.S president gets charged for his past and present crimes

I have an opinion that I know is going to be unpopular TODAY but I think will be very popular in the future: I don’t think the Clippers should be punished for it. Just get rid of the Salary cap instead. A lot of football/soccer leagues don’t have a salary cap and it leads to player making more money.

Adam Silver got paid off

I don’t think we see anything until the offseason.

I need y’all to understand THIS is the same NBA some of us here swears would never rig the lottery and a team with 2% or fewer odds getting the number one seed 3x in a 10 year period is all coincidence. Can’t make this shit up.

Adam Silver is too busy destroying the NBA to care about Kawhi.

What a fucking joke of a league, probably waiting on Tim D to make the call.

I think they were going to come out with Bulmer having no penalty, but Pablo exposed the sham process so they have to workshop it. The NBA wants this swept under the rug because my guess is Kawhi is just one of many. The NBA might actually kill Pablo.

Ballmer must have INSANE dirt on Silver. I’m talking like Scott Foster levels of dirt.

Turns out the real Kawhi punishment was the friends we made along the way

His punishment will be all nba 3rd team instead of 2nd team.

Never, NBA is all about that under-the-table money now.

Sorry who? Kawhat are you talking about? Uhhh hey what about tanking? Everyone cares about that right? No? Ah well fuck it, that’s what we’re focusing on now

No one was supposed to remember that this was a thing lol.

Bless your heart

irrefutable proof was uncovered by a journalist/reporter

Bro glazing Pablos work and not even giving him credit 💀

Damn, school is out early this year!

“Irrefutable proof”

GTFOH.

“Weren’t we told the league decision on punishment for the Los Angeles Clippers would be determined after the All Star Game?”

Nope, that was always just pure online speculation. 

I feel like a lot of you guys have some sort of object permanence issue where you think that if the minutiae of a story isn’t actively being reported on day-by-day then you assume it must have just gone away. The top law firm in the world is currently investigating the situation

You dummy, you just don’t understand they need 5 years to investigate and ur dum dum for wondering why most of a year later we don’t have an answer

Everyone knows or should know that Adam Silver wants you to forget it ever happened and will do the least punishment possible. The NBA has been a mess for a while now.

David Stern would’ve handled it within 2 weeks but Adam Silver is a giant puss so we will prolly never get any real resolution with it and they’ll just hope anti-tanking and expansion will continue to sweep it under the rug

I think I speak for this entire sub when I say we forgive Kawhi for anything he may have done wrong. His play on the court this season has proved that he cares about the Clippers fans and only wants the best for them. He’s been playing at a top 7 level this season